Maine · Public charity
Bowdoin College
It is the mission of the college to engage students of uncommon promise in an intense full-time education of their minds, exploration of their creative faculties, and development of their social and leadership abilities in a four-year course of study and residence that concludes with a baccalaureate degree in the liberal arts. The full…
- $72M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $686k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $606,230
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Bowdoin College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $686k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $576k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $612k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $565k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $679k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $544k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $788k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $217k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Brunswick | $4,120,542 | 9 | n/a |
| Brunswick Downtown Association | $166,850 | 9 | 7% |
| The United Church of Christ | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $44,933 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc | $43,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tedford Housing | $42,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Resources for Organizing and Social Change | $36,983 | 1 | 22% |
| Maine Inside Out | $25,226 | 1 | 3% |
| American Legion Auxiliary | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Brunswick Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Brunswick | $4,120,542 | 9 | n/a |
| Brunswick Downtown Association | $166,850 | 9 | 7% |
| The United Church of Christ | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $44,933 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc | $43,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tedford Housing | $42,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Resources for Organizing and Social Change | $36,983 | 1 | 22% |
| Maine Inside Out | $25,226 | 1 | 3% |
| American Legion Auxiliary | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Brunswick Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Creative Portland Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Council for Economic Education | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Parish Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Six Rivers Youth Sports Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pejepscot Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | $9,102 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $7,256 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bowdoin College supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Onion Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Bowdoin College
- How much does Bowdoin College give?
- Bowdoin College reported 5 itemized grants totaling $685,630, out of $71,645,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bowdoin College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (83%), Community Improvement (4%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Bowdoin College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Town of Brunswick ($4.1M), Brunswick Downtown Association ($167k), The United Church of Christ ($50k).
- Does Bowdoin College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bowdoin College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
- Where is Bowdoin College based?
- Bowdoin College is based in ME.
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